Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives

The four artists known as the Scottish Colourists: SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson, Leslie Hunter, and FCB Cadell, are acknowledged as one of the most talented, experimental, and distinctive groups in 20th-century British art. 100 years after their first exhibition in London, we celebrate their monumental achievements in The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives.  
 

For the first time in the history of the group, this breakthrough touring exhibition sets the radical Scots in the context of their British, Irish, and European contemporaries. Featuring Fauve painter, André Derain, and Bloomsbury Group innovators Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, as well as examples from Walter Sickert’s Fitzroy Street Group.  
 

This exciting exhibition will offer an unparalleled opportunity to challenge conventions around who, among the avant-garde of UK artists inspired by French innovation, should be considered the leading radical painters from 1905 to the outbreak of war in 1915. 
 

Discover the achievements of these great Scottish artists and their peers, and their continuing impact in the story of European art. 
 

The exhibition has been developed by The Fleming Collection, with additional loans from Tate, Perth & Kinross Council, Aberdeen Art Gallery, University of Hull Art Collection, Sheffield Museums, Southampton City Art Gallery and private lenders. 
 

Image credit: Detail from Luxembourg Gardens, c.1910, SJ Peploe © The Fleming Collection